{"id":17039,"date":"2023-11-17T01:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:14:33","slug":"argoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/argoland\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Argoland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Argoland<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a\u00a0lost continent that once\u00a0broke off from northwestern Australia 155 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The elusive,\u00a03,106-mile stretch was\u00a0once an integral part\u00a0of the\u00a0supercontinent Gondwana.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0disintegrated as tectonic forces stretched the landmass out\u00a0and drove it away from the rest of the continent\u00a0before scattering it across Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<li>It had\u00a0initially drifted northwest, where several Southeast Asian islands currently exist today.<\/li>\n<li>But\u00a0unlike India, which broke off the ancient supercontinent\u00a0Gondwana\u00a0120 million years ago\u00a0and still forms an intact landmass today,\u00a0Argoland splintered into fragments.<\/li>\n<li>These fragments reaching their destinations simultaneously formed an archipelago rather than a unified landmass.<\/li>\n<li>Argoland,\u00a0now dispersed as an archipelago separated by ocean basins,\u00a0contributed\u00a0to the\u00a0formation of several Southeast Asian islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Gondwana<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gondwana\u00a0used to be a supercontinent,\u00a0from around\u00a0550 million years ago to approximately\u00a0180 million years ago, alongside Laurasia.<\/li>\n<li>The continent\u00a0eventually split into the landmasses we recognize today:\u00a0Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Laurasia?<\/h3>\n<p>Laurasia was a supercontinent that existed during the Late Precambrian and early Paleozoic eras, approximately 335 to 175 million years ago. It was one of the two major land masses that formed Pangaea, the other being Gondwana. Laurasia was situated in the northern hemisphere and included the areas that would later become North America, Europe, Asia, and parts of Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/science\/news\/an-ancient-missing-continent-was-finally-rediscovered-155-million-years-after-it-vanished\/articleshow\/105045102.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>An ancient missing continent was finally rediscovered 155 million years after it vanished<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argoland was a lost continent that once broke off from northwestern Australia 155 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}